SophiaVerse

Technical Animator

Technical Animator needed for a persistent multiplayer metaverse, expertise in Unity animation, Blender-Unity, C# and/or Rust, and experience in AA/AAA game development.

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 TECHNICAL ANIMATOR SophiaVerse – an in-development gaming experience associated with cutting-edge AGI development – is actively looking for a Technical Animator to join our team. This position will be responsible for a broad range of animation duties, both character and environmental, required to implement a persistent multiplayer metaverse with AI and player character interactivity. We are looking for someone who is an expert with rigging and animation in Blender-Unity (or pure Unity), and technical animation tasks in C#, Rust, and other Unity systems, who will fit well with our team and can help us make a great experience. In this role, you will: <ul><li>Take ownership of the animation and animtech-integration tasks needed to implement an interactable 3D environment featuring AI and player characters. </li><li>Systematize the animation process into a library-driven, high-reuse, efficient pipeline. </li><li>Solve animtech challenges involved in creating a persistent multiuser game environment featuring interactable environments with AI and player character actors. </li><li>Ensure the animation library, and animtech script library, are robust, efficient, and scalable. </li><li>Create character and environmental animations, and integrate them into the environments/levels. </li><li>Prototype, refine, and deploy solutions to all our animtech problems in creating a persistent, stateful, interactive, multiuser experience. </li><li>Work with gameplay programmers to ensure animtech solutions perform as needed to implement interactions between characters, characters-environmental interactions, and environment-to-environment interactions. </li><li>Participate in gameplay and animtech code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring that all systems are implementing the necessary hooks and procedures for animtech integration. </li><li>Write efficient, high-quality, scalable, testable animtech scripts. </li><li>Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently </li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to animtech systems. </li></ul>
 What we're looking for: <ul><li>An expert in Unity animation, with sufficient Animator component and C# and/or Rust skills to implement clean animtech code </li><li>Animation experience, both character and environmental, in Unity, Unity+Blender, or similar animation-into-engine pipelines </li><li>A keen analytical mind, with strong problem-solving skills </li><li>Experience developing and shipping AA or AAA games as a technical animator </li><li>Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently </li><li>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal) </li></ul>

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